Create Dangerously, For People Who Read Dangerously.

Language Is Such A Powerful Thing. After The Earthquake, I Went To Haiti And People Were Talking About How [they] Described This Feeling Of Going Through An Earthquake. People Really Didn't Have The Vocabulary - Before We Had Hurricanes. I'd Talk With People And They'd Say, "we Have To Name It; It Has To Have A Name."

We've Had Fiction From The Time Of Cave Drawings. I Think Fiction, Storytelling, And Narrative In General Will Always Exist In Some Form.

No, Women Like You Don't Write. They Carve Onion Sculptures And Potato Statues. They Sit In Dark Corners And Braid Their Hair In New Shapes And Twists In Order To Control The Stiffness, The Unruliness, The Rebelliousness.

I'm Not Saying Cubans Don't Deserve Asylum, But If It Is A National Security Issue, There Are People Who Are Coming From Cuba On Hijacked Airplanes. Why Isn't That A National Security Issue?

And The Fact That Haiti Was Occupied For 19 Years By The United States, From 1915 To 1934.